Palestinians survey the devastation after settlers and soldiers uprooted thousands of olive trees in Al-Mughayyir, occupied West Bank, Aug. 24, 2025. (Oren Ziv)
Aug. 27, 2025 - The siege of the West Bank village and destruction of its olive groves were a joint exercise in intimidation and re-engineering of Palestinian space.
On Friday, Aug. 22, a convoy of bulldozers rolled into the olive groves of Al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Most were civilian machines operated by settlers, with several armored military bulldozers in support. By Sunday, thousands of olive trees, many of them decades old and belonging to local families, had been torn from the ground.
The order came from Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli army’s Central Command. Officially, the destruction was part of a manhunt for a Palestinian gunman who had allegedly opened fire on Israeli settlers grazing sheep on the village’s land, wounding one before fleeing. The army claimed the uprooting was meant to clear potential hiding places. Yet Bluth himself soon revealed that the true aim lay elsewhere.
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